PROTEST. Thousands of Solidarity supporters gathered...

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April 17, 1989

GDANSK, POLAND — PROTEST. Thousands of Solidarity supporters gathered Sunday to pay homage to Polish army officers they believe were massacred at Katyn in the Soviet Union during World War II. They carried urns of soil brought from the officers' graves. Polish officials have supported the Soviet account that more than 4,000 officers were killed in 1941 by the Nazis after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The government has indicated it may change its position to that of most Poles and Western historians, who say Soviet secret police carried out the massacre on orders of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.